RE: database decommission checklist
- From: "QuijadaReina, Julio C" <QuijadJC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:11:48 -0400
Life catches up with characters like Madoff sooner or later. Unless one lives
as a hermit, tracks are hard to cover. And it usually takes more than erasing
what's on a disk to cover them ;-)
Julio
From: Howard Latham [mailto:howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 9:56 AM
To: QuijadaReina, Julio C
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; dcowles@xxxxxxxxxx; Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx;
Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: database decommission checklist
You really think one write to a disk is enough - Well so long as you aren't
Dexter or Madoff!
2009/6/30 QuijadaReina, Julio C
<QuijadJC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:QuijadJC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
On Linux, you can use a tool called 'shred'. It will repeatedly write 25 times
over on the disk. Make it a little harder to recover data if that is your
intent.
Julio
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Behalf Of Bobak, Mark
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 5:40 PM
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Subject: RE: database decommission checklist
And, might I add, when it comes to wiping the disk, one good wipe is all it
takes, contrary to what government standards say.....
I challenge anyone to recover data from a disk after a single pass of:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd0
You do that, the data is gone, and it's not coming back....
-Mark
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Subject: RE: database decommission checklist
I would just add wiping the disk, or taking a sledgehammer to it if it's really
sensitive data and you'll be decommissioning the hardware too, and then other
little things like updating documentation and maybe any clients, e.g.
tnsnames.ora files, that need to be updated.
Regards,
Brandon
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